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Oedipus, king of Thebes, investigates a plague afflicting his city. The investigation reveals that he himself is the cause — he has unknowingly killed his father and married his mother, fulfilling the prophecy he spent his life trying to avoid.

Peter Lynch, the manager of the legendary Magellan Fund, explains how ordinary investors can use their everyday experiences to find exceptional stock market opportunities.

The fall of Satan, the creation of the world, the temptation and fall of Adam and Eve — in twelve books of blank verse written by a blind man from memory and dictation. Milton's stated aim was to 'justify the ways of God to men', but the poem's Satan is so compelling that Blake argued Milton was 'of the Devil's party without knowing it'.

Bertie Wooster decides to handle matters himself for once, without Jeeves. He will sort out Gussie Fink-Nottle's love life and Tuppy Glossop's engagement without the butler's assistance. The resulting catastrophe — culminating in a prize-giving speech at Market Snodsbury Grammar School — is the funniest extended sequence in English comic fiction.

The Soviet Union has collapsed. Its former citizens—Russians, Ukrainians, Armenians, Tajiks—speak to Alexievich about what happened to their lives, their beliefs, and their understanding of happiness. Some grieve communism; some feel liberated; many feel lost. Alexievich's masterpiece and winner of the 2015 Nobel Prize.

First published in 1934 in the aftermath of the Great Crash, Benjamin Graham and David Dodd's foundational text establishes the principles of value investing — rigorous financial analysis, margin of safety, and the distinction between investment and speculation — that remain the intellectual bedrock of serious equity analysis.

Kurt Vonnegut's anti-war masterpiece follows Billy Pilgrim, who has become 'unstuck in time' and moves non-linearly through his experiences as a prisoner of war in Dresden and his later suburban American life.

A great god is reduced to living in the body of a small tortoise because no one truly believes in him anymore — only one novice monk does — and together they must reckon with what faith really means in a world dominated by the institution built in his name.

Joe Abercrombie's debut fantasy introduces the Union, a corrupt empire, and three deeply flawed protagonists: a disabled barbarian, a self-loathing torturer, and a vain nobleman who slowly discovers courage.

Iris Chase, elderly and alone, narrates the story of her family's collapse over the 20th century. Nested within her memoir is her dead sister Laura's posthumous novel — and within that, a pulp science-fiction story told by clandestine lovers. The Booker Prize winner 2000.

Severian, a torturer's apprentice exiled from his guild for showing mercy to a condemned prisoner, narrates his journey across a dying far-future Earth in a memoir he claims is perfectly remembered but which the careful reader will find riddled with unreliable omissions.

Stories of personal triumph from the frontiers of brain science, revealing how the brain's lifelong capacity to change its own structure — neuroplasticity — offers hope for previously untreatable conditions.

In Leningrad on the eve of the German invasion in 1941, nineteen-year-old Tatiana falls in love with Alexander — a Red Army officer carrying dangerous secrets — as the 872-day siege closes around the city and its inhabitants.

Bertie Wooster is dispatched to Totleigh Towers, home of the terrifying Roderick Spode and the magistrate Sir Watkyn Bassett, to steal a silver cow creamer and assist various friends with their tangled romantic lives. Only Jeeves can navigate the catastrophe that follows.

Montaigne retired to his tower in 1571 and spent the next twenty years writing essays — a form he essentially invented — on subjects ranging from cannibals to friendship, cruelty to experience. The subject of every essay, regardless of its nominal topic, is Montaigne himself: how he thinks, what he knows, what he doubts.

Billy Parham, sixteen, traps a pregnant wolf in New Mexico and decides to return her to Mexico — three journeys across the border over a decade, each one costing more than the last.

The definitive account of the Soviet camp system: Solzhenitsyn's three-volume, seven-part history and personal testimony of the Gulag, drawing on 227 survivor testimonies gathered in secret over fifteen years. This abridged edition (authorized by Solzhenitsyn himself) brings the essential text to under 600 pages. One of the most important books of the twentieth century.

Building a business when there are no easy answers — a memoir and management guide from one of Silicon Valley's most respected venture capitalists.

James Gleick traces the history of information from African talking drums through Claude Shannon's information theory to the digital deluge of the modern age.

A sweeping history of the digital revolution — from Ada Lovelace and Charles Babbage through Alan Turing, Claude Shannon, William Shockley, and the personal computer pioneers — arguing that the most important innovations were always the product of collaboration, not lone genius.

Todd Hewitt is the last boy in Prentisstown — a colony world where a germ has made everyone's thoughts audible as constant Noise — until he discovers a pocket of silence in the swamp and finds Viola, the first girl he has ever seen, whose ship crashed nearby.

Ernest Hemingway's Nobel Prize-winning novella about an aging Cuban fisherman's epic struggle with a great marlin in the waters of the Gulf Stream.

Richard Dawkins's landmark restatement of Darwinian natural selection from the perspective of the gene, introducing the meme concept and transforming evolutionary biology.

Elizabeth Kolbert reports from the front lines of the ongoing mass extinction event — the sixth in Earth's history, and the first caused by a single species.